eudoxia

• bizans imparatoru arcadius'un karısı.
  kral sadece bu kadin için ayasofya önündeki augusteon meydanının bir köşesinde praefectus simplicius tarafından bir anıt diktirmiştir. mermer bir kaide, kırmızı renkte porfir bir sütun ve bunun üstünde de gümüş (veya gümüş kaplama?) bir heykelden meydana gelen bu anıtın grekçe ve latince kitabeli kaidesi, 1847'de darulfünun (sonraları meclis ve istanbul adliyesi) yapılırken 3 metre derinlikte bulunmuştur.
• asagidaki metin italo calvinonun, invisible citiesinden bir alinti olup hayali eudoxia sehirini anlatmaktadir:
  
  in eudoxia, which spreads both upward and down, with winding alleys, steps,
  dead ends, hovels, a carpet is preserved in which you can observe the city's
  true form. at first sight nothing seems to resemble eudoxia less than the
  design of that carpet, laid out in symmetrical motives whose patterns are
  repeated along straight and circular lines, interwoven with brilliantly
  colored spires, in a repetition that can be followed throughout the whole
  woof. but if you pause and examine it carefully, you become convinced that
  each place in the carpet corresponds to a place in the city and all the
  things contained in the city are included in the design, arranged according
  their true relationship, which escapes your eye distracted by the bustle,
  the throngs, the shoving. all of eudoxia's confusion, the mules' braying,
  the lampblack stains, the fish smell is what is evident in the incomplete
  perspective you grasp; but the carpet proves that there is a point from
  which the city shows its true proportions, the geometrical scheme implicit
  in its every, tiniest detail.
  
  it is easy to get lost in eudoxia: but when you concentrate and stare at the
  carpet, you recognize the street you were seeking in a crimson or indigo or
  magenta threat which, in a wide loop, brings you to the purple enclosure
  that is your real destination. every inhabitant of eudoxia compares the
  carpet's immobile order with his own image of the city, an anguish of his
  own, and each can find, concealed among the arabesques, an answer, the story
  of his life, the twists of fate.
  
  an oracle was questioned about the mysterious bond between two objects so
  dissimilar as the carpet and the city. one of the two objects -- the oracle
  replied -- has the form the gods gave the starry sky and the orbits in which
  the worlds revolve; the other is an approximate reflection, like every human
  creation.
  
  for some time the augurs had been sure that the carpet's harmonious pattern
  was of divine origin. the oracle was interpreted in this sense, arousing no
  controversy. but you could, similarly, come to the opposite conclusion: that
  the true map of the universe is the city of eudoxia, just as it is, a stain
  that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one
  upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness. ^**
• (bkz: to zeimbekiko tis evdokias)
• yunancada iyi ün manasında olup, latincesini cicero, gloria 'dan ziyade bona fama olarak belirtmiştir. (de finibus, iii, 57)
• konstantinopolis patriği aziz ioannes khrysostomos'u sürgüne gönderebilecek güçte bir siyasal güce sahip
  bizans imparatoriçesi.